CSRG David Love Memorial Vintage Car Road Races Sunday

Sunday was a high overcast and light coat cool. The light for photos was just right making the work of capturing the cars easy. Watching and photographing the quick cars on a damp track as they fought for control and maximum speed was a thrill. CSRG moves the event along with good precision. Even early in the cool morning there were many fans in the stands around the track which to me at least shows that this type of 'Club Racing' still holds interest to people out side of the Core People. Club events like CSRG are not heavily advertised as the large moneyed events like NASCAR and always been for the fun and enjoyment of the owners and drivers of the cars. CSRG and SCCA organizations were formed to run races not make stock investors rich and the still have some of the olden days informality and focus on an enjoyable weekend for 'Gentleman' Drivers.

The big event of the weekend was the Kastner Cup race for Triumphs. R.E. Kas Kastner was a racecar driver and manager for the US Competition's Department for the Triumph factory. Kas also published books which are considered the top source on Triumph performance tuning. Kastner and Pete Brock designed and built the Kastner Triumph TR 250K in 1968 which was at the Sonoma Raceway this weekend and literally out ran the field of Triumphs on each outing. I had the great pleasure to meet and speak with the very gracious Mr. Kastner and discuss his car.

Petter Giddings in his Alfa Romeo Monza sn-2111037 1932

Kastner TR 250K Prtotype 1968
Kas Kastner with his Prototype
The Kastner Triumph TR 250K 1968 is a prototype made for Triumph in 1968.
The car was designed by Pete Brock who later worked for Carol Shelby and designed the Shelby Daytona Coupe.

The TR 250K has a Triumph 2.5L six-cylinder and a modified TR4A chassis assembled in Triumph's Competitions Department workshop by 'Kas' Kastner who ran the Competitions team. Kastner also built the TR-4 for Bob Tullius' for his D Production titles in 1963-64. The body is a custom aluminum skin by Borth and Rose in Southern California.

The reason for the TR 250K's creation was to move Triumph to a new modern light weight aerodynamic car around their 2.5-litre straight six engine to compete with the Porsche 911. Triumph supplied some seed money for the project and the TR 250K competed at Sebring, but Triumph failed to follow up on the TR 250K. Triumph later failed as did most all the British Leyland companies.

The spoiler at the rear was cutting edge for the time as an electronically adjustable aerodynamic aid. Movable spoilers or aerodynamic aids were later band on racing cars. However fixed rear spoilers are used almost universally even on production road cars.

BRM P261 F1 sn-03 1964

Devin SS 1958

Ferrari 312 P Sparling 1971

Turn 2 'Yellow'

Ford Falcon Sprint 1964

Ford Shelby GT350 sn-SFM6S1215 1966
A little wheel lock-up gives a bit of smok to add to the drama of racing

Ford Shelby GT350 sn-SFM6S1215 1966

Genie Genie Mk V 1962

Genie Huffaker 1961

Genie Huffaker 1961

Genie mark 5 1963

Genie MkIV 1963

Kellison Chevrolet 1964

Kellison Chevrolet 1964

Lola T204 1972

Lola T294 1973

Lola T294 1973

Lotus 23 1962

Lotus Eleven 1956

Lotus Elite

Lotus Super 7

Lotus Type 47 1966

March 76B 1976

March 821 F1 1982

March 821 F1 1982

Mclaren M8C 1969

Merlyn 11A 1969

MG BGT 1966

MGB Roadster Huffaker 1964

Mini Mini Cooper 1960

Morgan 4-4 1956

Porsche 911 1975

Porsche 911 TR 1967

Porsche 911T 1967

Porsche 911T 1967

Porsche 911TR 1967

Ralt RT1 1976

Ralt RT1 1977

Shadow Mk lll Can Am 1972

Triumph 250K 1968

Triumph 250K 1968

Tyrrell 008

Turn 4 Action

Turn 4

Turn 4

Sonoma has a great place fot the car club cars to park together creating a car show